MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile is pushing for a bill that aims to penalize cyber criminals and hackers, including pedophiles who use the Internet to lure victims. Read the rest of this entry »

The lowdown on carpal tunnel syndrome
 
Joy, 35, was baffled that she kept on dropping things accidentally the past few days. She also felt pain and tingling sensations on the fingers of her right hand particularly at night. An accountant used to working till the small hours of the evening, the numbness and the intense pain soon prevented her from using the computer. A physician’s diagnosis shortly revealed that Joy was afflicted with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a medical condition wherein the sensitive median nerve in the wrist passing through a bony canal called the carpal tunnel was compressed. While the causes of most cases of CTS were unknown, some were attributed to environmental factors like the excessive use of computer in the workplace. Read the rest of this entry »

TOKYO: Japan, one of the biggest   victims of the global economic downturn, may also be one of the first countries to exit recession as its stricken export engine sputters back to life, analysts say. Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday said it had forged agreement on the stimulus measures taken to combat the global financial crisis and the need to clean up bad assets weighing on banks. Read the rest of this entry »

STIMULUS spending by countries employing its workers is helping the Philippines maintain its remittances despite the global economic downturn, a labor leader said Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

THE Wall Street meltdown is so intense—and reflects such gross irresponsibility by leaders in the highest places—that it has set people questioning capitalism’s very reasons for being. The global crisis has brought to a head the debate between America’s “take-no-prisoners” capitalism and the European “social market economy” espoused principally by the Germans. Read the rest of this entry »

Jobseekers  flock to the 3rd Urban Job Fair at SM Megamall Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine coffee industry is targetted to attain self sufficiency in the aromatic bean by 2015, enabling the country to save P3.5 billion from annual imports of the bean, following the agreement signed in October 2008 between the Department of Agriculture and the stakeholders in the sector. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) yesterday said the number of Filipino nurses who have sought employment in the United States during the first quarter of 2009 has gone down by 10.5 percent. Read the rest of this entry »

The question is, who are the marginalized? What groups are considered under-represented? The Constitution says party-list seats shall be filled by election from the labor, peasant, urban poor, indigenous cultural communities, women, youth, “and such other sectors as may be provided by law, except the religious sector.” Read the rest of this entry »